Senior Software Engineer - API Development

Posted 6 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Brazil
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
We help people be their best in the moments that matter.
The Role
Designs, builds, and deploys core technologies for API development and system integration, ensuring scalable and robust solutions for data exchange.
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Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.


Department Overview
The Ecosystem Operations Team delivers solutions to the public safety sector. The group is committed to providing technology and tools which will allow customers to focus on their mission, and enable them to respond faster with smarter and safer decisions. The group builds integrations between different products and features such as Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management Systems (RMS), Jail Management Systems and Evidences management among other offerings. Interfaces are typically between Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI) products and third party applications. The team is in charge of API Enablement front, providing solutions and governance over product API in the ecosystem internally or externally exposed.
Job Description

Analyzes, develops, designs, and maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Performs system integration of software and hardware to maintain throughput and program consistency. Develops, validates, and tests: structures and user documentation.

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically adept Senior Engineer to join our team. You will be a critical player in designing, building, and deploying the core technologies that facilitate seamless data exchange and workflow orchestration. This role requires a strong background in API development, system integration, and a strategic mindset to translate business goals into robust, scalable technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • API Strategy & Design: Drive the technical API strategy for both internal cross-product integrations and external partnership programs, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, and developer-friendly.

  • Strategic Integrations: Design, build, and deploy high-value strategic integrations with third-party applications and services, making it effortless to ingest and distribute data across our portfolio.

  • Collaborate with product teams to identify high-value internal cross-product use cases and define the necessary API architecture and development to enable them.

  • Contribute to the architecture and best practices for our developer programs to support external partners leveraging our APIs.


Basic Requirements
  • Experience: 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on API development, distributed systems, and enterprise-level integration.

  • Deep API Expertise: Proven expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs (or similar protocols), including API lifecycle management, security (OAuth, API Keys), documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and versioning.

  • Development Proficiency: Strong hands-on development skills in at least one Object-Oriented programming language (e.g., Java, C#).

  • Data Modeling & Management: Strong experience working with and optimizing both SQL (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, CosmosDB) databases.

  • Integration Principles: Excellent understanding of integration patterns, message queues, event-driven architectures, and data transformation techniques, including familiarity with XSLT for complex data mapping.

  • DevOps & CI/CD: Practical experience implementing and maintaining modern continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.

  • Cloud Development: Experience building and deploying applications in a public cloud environment (Azure preferred).

Desirable/Bonus Qualifications
  • Cloud API Management: Significant experience with Azure API Manager (or similar cloud API Gateways/Management platforms like AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong) is a major advantage.

  • Modern Architecture: Experience designing, deploying, and managing services using Microservices architecture and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.

  • Integration Platforms: Experience with integration platform technologies such as MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform) or other similar platforms.
     

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Travel Requirements
None
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced

Referral Payment PlanYes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

Top Skills

Api Keys
Apigee
Aws Api Gateway
Azure
Azure Api Manager
C#
Cosmosdb
Github Actions
Java
Kong
Kubernetes
Microservices
MongoDB
Mulesoft
MySQL
NoSQL
Oauth
Openapi
Postgres
Restful Apis
SQL
Swagger
Xslt

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
23,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1928

What We Do

About Motorola Solutions | Solving for safer

Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations.

Why Work With Us

We are a global family of driven, dynamic people who inspire and support everyone around us to be the best version of themselves. We embrace a “people first” philosophy – and are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of caring and inclusiveness. Are you ready to join our team and be a part of a close-knit community in a big company?

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Motorola Solutions Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We believe that the next big idea can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time. That’s why we offer office-based, hybrid and remote working models, where Motorolans can do their best work wherever they work best.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
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